Joshua 22:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ 8 And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for sacrifice, but for a testimony between us and you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ that we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ If we have built us an altar to turn away from following the Lord, or if we did so to offer on it burnt offerings or cereal offerings or peace offerings, may the Lord Himself take vengeance.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Jehovah; or if to offer thereon burnt-offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Jehovah himself require it;

Common English Bible

²³ If we’ve built ourselves an altar to turn away from following the LORD or to offer on it an entirely burned offering or gift offering, or to perform well-being sacrifices on it, let the LORD himself seek punishment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And if we have acted with a mind so that we might present upon it holocausts, and sacrifice, and victims of peace offerings, let him inquire and judge.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And if we did it with that mind, that we might lay upon it holocausts, and sacrifice, and victims of peace-offerings, let him require and judge.

Joshua 22:23 Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

2 Chronicles 24:22

7 And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered under him, and the repairing the house of God; they are written more diligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his stead.

Ezekiel 3:18

6 And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they are a provoking house.

Ezekiel 33:6

4 And if I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice,

Ezekiel 33:8

6 None of his sins, which he hath committed, shall be imputed to him: he hath done judgment and justice, he shall surely live.

Deuteronomy 12:11

6 Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 18:19

Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of the land, which the Lord will give thee in possession,

Joshua 22:24

9 God keep us from any such wickedness that we should revolt from the Lord, and leave off following his steps, by building an altar to offer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, beside the altar of the Lord our God, which is erected before his tabernacle.

1 Samuel 20:16

1 And I will send a boy, saying to him: Go and fetch me the arrows.